It is my privilege to announce that the wonder duo of Disrepute and vor has agreed to come out of slumber and once again host a stream covering our next Draft Cup.

The 6th #tdmpickup Draft Tournament will be played on Sunday, at 10:00 CDT, 2 June 2013. Signups will start at 09:00 CDT, 2 June 2013 and will last for one hour.

As usual, all players are invited to participate. Teams will be created automatically from the pool of all signed up players. Remember, each player has to play at least 10 TDM pickups prior to the tournament. So if you aren't ranked already, start playing pickups today! Have fun!

Type !tadd on our channel #tdmpickup between 09:00 CDT and 10:00 CDT on Sunday the 2nd. If you are signed up and you want to remove yourself, just use command !tremove. Please note that if you leave the channel before teams are created, you will be removed from the tournament as well!

- Everybody needs to play 10 pickup games before the tournament, in order to be able to signup to the tournament. You can check how many games are remaining on your profile at QLStats for #tdmpickup.
- Eat before the tournament. Delaying whole tournament because of one person grabbing junkfood sucks.
- Be ready to use voice communication. If you cannot speak English, at least join and listen.
- If you leave the channel before the teams are posted, you will be removed from the tournament.
- If you didn't manage to register during signups, feel free to query some admin and you will be used as a substitute in case one is needed.
- If you already played for some team, you cannot play as a substitue for any other team.
- Please don't spam IRC.

edit: And as this draft tourney will be streamed, there is the chance that this map will get picked in a streamed game, so Disrepute can show the viewers his tactical understanding of the map. This way probably more people will accept it in the future with less "OMG NEW MAP"- or "OMG NO RAIL"-whine..

Atleast give it a try as it's only a draft tourney and nothing what is really important, best situation to try out new things and show them to the community..

edit: Dear #tdmpickup admins unban nined for this draft tournament + put in arcane citadel. This way he can show us all live on stream how to proper steal bs on rotating platforms, like he invented full shamanic quad steal on old terminatria version!

they ban player with rating 30, and unban guy with rating minus 14. This guys raised Quake to a new level. Really, it's boring to watch how purri owning, better lets watch how guys with rating less then zero trying to play quake.

I am sure everybody enjoys watching a smart tdm player like purri owning. But that doesn't mean a nice guy like nined wouldnt deserve to be unbanned after been banned for atleast 5 month while the reason itself was constantly whining of some "pro-players" because he did not that much damage.

Fact is, there are serveral players not doing that much damage and as we have a bot which takes ratings into consideration, there shouldnt be a problem. A healthy community can't only consist of super leet topscorers and I prefer games with nice and friendly people like nined over games with some guys who start whining any given moment if the game is not in their favor...

Don't screw away people who take the game what it is meant for, eg: having fun, otherwise you can't blame always only id that the game is played by so few people..

Ps: If you dont want to play with lesser skilled people, you should probably only !a elite

Of course there was whinging, I'm not saying all players were happy to play with him (or are happy to play with less skilled players in general). But the answer was always "!a elite" and had nothing to do with any ban.

In case you weren't there and missed all the ESR posts, Nined was always (willingly!) provoking everyone to rage at him on irc and caused big fights. We were just trying to calm him down, in an effort to keep #tdmpickup more friendly environment. That's all.

yeah, gay_noob increase his skill very fast when make 5 frags and about 2k dmg per 20 minutes.
its like when kid come to martial arts school to learn, and instead for learn some bases he is at once going to fight versus champions to learn. Yeah, he will learn how to fight, but its take a lot of time, because he will spend many time in hospital with broken bones.

He doesn't play in elite pickup, eg: bareknuckle fight in martial arts, so this way he can dodge the hospital. And eventhough there are really good players in #tdmpickup it's not like in every pickup game the average skill ceiling is that high as if there would be clans like schroet kommando, ocrana or unmatched playing :]

Few pieces of shit decide who should be in the community and who does not.
You and lam, two arrogant fag and runny like bottle-washer. You think you are community president ? guess what ? you just pieces of shit.
like i said to runny, i will stay clean but you get dirty yourself by shit when call me cheater and ban.

you make me laugh, part of community ? you think i need to be part of community ? I am playing QL 5 years and about 5 months of this 5 years(60 months) i was part of community... ahaha, yeah this is a big loss for me !!!!
I never wanted to be a part of something, i am a personality and i don't need flock around me. especially as you. Bitches which think what if player can play better then they so he is obviously cheating. Because you so awesome and no one can be better then you. You know what i am doing if i see cheater ? I play versus him, because it's a good practice.

It's good when people progressing and at least trying to get better, but somes are totally fine with awful perfomances and people complaining about them. Must be some form of masochism or good old irrational trolling.

But on the other hand, rusak somehow called me crazy when I told him, that I played EVERY single game of quakelive since the beta with mp3, because other people would take the game more serious and music while playing quake is a no-go..

But I get dizzy and mad when I only listen to this robotic quake sounds all the time.. WHAT TO DO??? :|

yeah, its fucking team game and you play with people, not with bots, and all of this guys try to win. so, when you play with music or lazy to count items or drunk or something else you show disrespect for peoples with which you play.

But I get dizzy and mad when I only listen to this robotic quake sounds all the time.. WHAT TO DO??? :|

Ok, I should have said, its absolutely no fun to me, to play without music, thats why I play pickups and not in a clan.. but as I try to win too, I should probably follow your advise to play with a bot... oh wait! :|

if you haven't played 10 games yet, and wish to take part in sunday's draft its just 3 games per day needed between now and sunday and one extra game in between time which leaves plenty of time to get the minimal requirement of 10 "rated" games.

invites are usually available, for those with standard accounts, please ensure that invites are arranged prior to adding.

for those that wish to take part in this sundays draft, that have not got enough "rated" games, make sure to get them in between now and sunday 3pm bst!

standard players are more than welcome to take part in the draft, and of course on the regular #tdmpickup channel's games, which usually start approx every 10-15 minutes throughout peak activity throughout the day

there is not much time left if you haven't yet played ur "10 ranked games" for newer players (sub 10 games in #tdmpickup) please ensure you use the remaining time left wisely by getting in your games to avoid possible disappointment of not being able to take part.

- fearZZz showing what he can do, almost carrying Fraggie to third round if they didn't lose 1:2 in maps, last map by a single frag!

- 9 out of 20 games were 2:1, with 2 of them being comebacks from a mercylimit on first map. That only shows that you can blame the bot for bad team, or you can get yourself together and start playing up to your ability/rating. It also shows what we already knew, that some people suck on some maps :)

- people throwing smurfing accusations, however the "alts" turned out to be correctly rated

Oh, and above all, thanks to Level Up TV, namely Disrepute, vor and sLowbi (who ran the TV2 stream and as always made beautiful overlays). We try to keep TDM alive, but it's you who make it entertaining :)